[Bug 1289239] [NEW] emapthy loads ./mozilla/plugins on chat start

[Oleksij Rempel]

Public bug reported:

On chart start, empathy trying to load ./mozilla/plugins. In case there is pipelight plugin it will pull complete wine with it in to memory. In this case, chat window will need some seconds to start.
IMO it is not only bad user experience, it is important security issue.
May be it is couse of some other chat related issues.

Ways to reproduce:
- install pipelight-multi
- login to the system and make sure no other NAPI related programs are started. For example firefox.
- open terminal and run: watch "ps aux | grep wine"
- start empathy and open chat window.
- you will see how wine will start.

See pipelight bug report for more nformation:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1283800

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: empathy 3.8.6-0ubuntu5
Uname: Linux 3.14.0-rc4-wl-00023-gfcee4dc x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Mar  7 10:43:22 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-13 (539 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120913.1)
SourcePackage: empathy
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-12-23 (74 days ago)

** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug third-party-packages trusty

** Description changed:

  On chart start, empathy trying to load ./mozilla/plugins. In case there is pipelight plugin it will pull complete wine with it in to memory. In this case, chat window will need some seconds to start.
  IMO it is not only bad user experience, it is important security issue.
  May be it is couse of some other chat related issues.
  
  Ways to reproduce:
  - install pipelight-multi
  - login to the system and make sure no other NAPI related programs are started. For example firefox.
  - open terminal and run: watch "ps aux | grep wine"
  - start empathy and open chat window.
  - you will see how wine will start.
+ 
+ See pipelight bug report for more nformation:
+ https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1283800
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: empathy 3.8.6-0ubuntu5
  Uname: Linux 3.14.0-rc4-wl-00023-gfcee4dc x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Fri Mar  7 10:43:22 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-13 (539 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120913.1)
  SourcePackage: empathy
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2013-12-23 (74 days ago)

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